"Sex and Sexuality Have Been Central to All of My Movies": Gregg Araki on Restoring The Doom Generation

The tongue-in-cheek title card for The Doom Generation--“a heterosexual movie by Gregg Araki”--isn’t merely an enduring “fuck you” to homophobes. Amid a sexless and puritanical American film landscape, coupled with an equally regressive online discourse on whether sex scenes in films are ever truly necessary, the emphasis on a sexual movie by Gregg Araki, regardless of orientation, transmits a much-needed erotic jolt. Newly restored in a 4K director’s cut, with grisly moments previou...